Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
1985/05/01 by Paul DiMaggio, John Mohr, John W. Mohr · 33 citations
Social Sciences · #Social and Cultural Dynamics #Social Capital and Networks #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
paper · doi:10.1086/228209
Abstract
Although Weber distinguished sharply between "class" (an individual's market position) and "status" (participation in a collectivity bound together by a shared status culture), only measures of the former have been included in most empirical analyses of the stratification process. In this article a measure of status-culture participation (or cultural capital) is developed from the responses of men and women interviewed in 1960 by Project Talent. Questions tapped a range of high-cultural interests and activities. Analyses of data from a follow-up study 11 years later show significant effects of cultural capital (with appropriate controls) on educational attainment, college attendence, college completion, graduate attendance, and marital selection for both men and women.
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